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[pyrephox]

A couple of odd things: One, our newspaper has a link to a searchable database of all the government salaries in the state, and who they belong to. With names. It's...kind of creepy, really.

Also? We have a Professor Moriarty at my school. Female, but still!

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[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

A female Professor Moriarty? Now there's a flashback to The Beekeeper's Apprentice, for me.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I liked that book. They started to get a bit Mary Sueish there after...oh, okay. So they are happy happy Mary Sues from the beginning (and I /so/ do not agree with her characterization of poor Watson. Watson gets no love!)...but I liked that book.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Dreadfully Mary Sue, but done so well one was willing to forgive them for that a great deal. (Poor Watson. He seemed a nice enough fellow, and it was conceded that he was not an idiot, but he got little more than that.)

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And I really did like her Holmes. I even liked Mary Russel...my favorite book in the series was probably A Monstrous Regiment of Women. Although the addition of possible miracles was a little odd. But still!

(If you like period female detectives, I also recommend...oh, blast. Forget the first book, but the second one is Petit Treason. About a Fallen Woman in an alternate Victorian who serves as a freelance investigator.)

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Oo, that does sound interseting. I shall have to look it up. Amazon is not being helpful, alas. I shall search further!

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Ah-hah! I got the name wrong. It's "Petty Treason" (one of the laws within the book is referred to as 'petite treason', which is where the confusion arises.), and the series is the Sarah Tolerance mysteries, by Madeleine E. Robins. Good books.

Oh, boy. I missed several details. It's an alternate /Regency/ period, with Charlotte instead of Prinny as Regent. And the first book is 'Point of Honour'.